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Fred Onyango

Trump to host Kennedy Center Honors — hints at honoring himself, and immediately sparks uproar over his criteria for honor picks

Donald Trump has made a major announcement; he will be hosting the next Kennedy Center Honors and his first order of business will be honoring himself. The next will be blocking out all the “wokesters.”

At a press conference to crown himself host, Trump boasted he was “98% involved” in picking the Kennedy Center Honorees for 2025. His selection process, he said, was proudly partisan — insisting many “wokesters” made the long list, but he personally struck them out. He claimed the Oscars’ declining ratings are the result of this same “too woke” problem.

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